Lovely fic about Mal and Inara. Hilarious in parts, which just made the sweet bits sweeter. And yes, I can totally see the rest of the crew listening in from the hallway. And maybe River's on the ceiling unnoticed or something ;) Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us Browncoats!

While I, too, find it implausible that they'd ever get this much privacy in the dining room of Serenity, I really enjoyed this conversation anyway. I gonna go with the explanation you offered, that everybody is eavesdropping in the corridor. I particularly liked "already feeling the first pangs of a peculiar ache he'd come to associate with her absence – not to be confused with the one caused by her presence." but you had so many turns of phrase here that were just perfect for them. Thanks for writing and posting!